Vietnam & Cambodia are the bank! For 2018 we're catching the blog up and heading back to Europe.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Coordinating China

This year's trip is to a place experiencing quite a rapid pace of change, China. Last year Juli had to obtain a Chinese visa for work which was never used, and when we took a look and found some cheap nonstop mileage tickets, we decided to jump on them. After sorting through all the options, here's what we've come up with as a plan:

Shanghai, Chinese metropolis

Dazhai, 'Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces'

Yangshuo, karst landscape countryside

Chengdu, spicy Sichuan cuisine and Pandas

Xi'an, Terracotta Warriors

Beijing, Great Wall and historical China

We'll be travelling during China's national holidays which we heard makes for a difficult time to get around the country, so we did lots of the booking in advance and will be flying between all major cities on the trip, with one planned overnight train along the way.

On this trip we're adding something new to our backpacks, the Kindle, so our reading list has expanded a little bit to include the following: